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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1937

LEON ERROL WILL APPEAR ON LYRIC STAGE BEGINNING FRIDAY: Child Group

To Present Ballet Here -

Strawbridge Dance Team To Appear at Murat March 20.

——— &

Screen Star To Present Revue Here

Comedian Will Give Skit On Movie Director Of War Film.

| A . | Leon Errol, veteran jelly-| legged comedian of musical | comedy, stage and screen, is coming back to Indianapolis. He'll be here Friday at the Lyric in what, oddly enough, will be his local vaudeville debut, according to the Lyric’s Ted Nicholas. Mr. Errol has been seen here often enough, but it has been at English’s | or on the screen. The question most Errol admirers will ask, first of all. | is whether he's still doing his classic imitation. of the inebriate. The answer, accerding to reliable ad-| vance reports, is in the affirmative. | His present revue is called “Holly- | wood Follies,” and has the distine- | tion of being one of the few such presentations whose title has anything to do with what goes on. In| this case, the performance justifies | the name when Mr. Errol does his | impression of a movie megaphonist directing a Civil War picture. Those | who have seen the skit boldly assert | it’s one of the funniest acts the star | ever has had.

Dancer to Share Honors.

Sharing honors in the “Hollywood Follies” will be Sunny O'Dea, the girl with the rather striking resemblance to Irene Dunne who played | with: Eddie Cantor in “Strike Me Pink.” Miss O'Dea will appear on | the Lyric stage as dancer rather than actress, however, | If Mr. Errol were booked in here | a week later, he prebably would hold a Ziegfeld Alumni Association reunion with Fannie Brice, who | moves.in to English’'s with the current edition of the “Ziegfeld Follies” on March 18. Both stars’ names | probably always will be associated with that of the great showman. | They were among Ziegfeld's earliest | headliners, and both gained their | chief fame under his banner. Mr. Errol was born “down under” | in Sydney, and came to this country | early in the century. He joined up | with the “Follies” in 1911, a year after Miss - Brice's debut, and appeared with the late Raymond Hitchcock in “Hitchy Koo,” and in “Sally” and "Louis XIV,” in which | he was starred | A lot of stock experience was sandwiched in his career, as well as | a flyer at producing a show called | “Joy Bells” for Ziegfeld in England. Movie fans will remember that he | duplicated his stage success in the | film version of “Sally,” and has | since made a number of shorts as well as appearing in such features as “Yolanda,” “The Captain Hates the Sea” and “Coronado.”

Kidnaping Dogs Latest Racket

| gale his hearers once more wit

)

Imes ¢ HOLLY WOOD, March 1. naping dogs for reward ransoms appears to be the latest Hollywood racket, judging by the experience of Louise Latimer, screen actress. Rehome after a day on the set, Miss Latimer missed her police pup, Blitzen. Last evening, two days after Blitzen’s disappearance, a stranger ! called at Miss Latimer’'s home and inquired if she had lost a dog. As the notice offering a reward for Blitzen's return had not yet appeared in print, the actress was suspicious. The stranger explained that he delivered for a market and had | noticed a police pup in her yard. He had found such a dog several blocks away, apparently lost. He had it in his car. { Lacking any proof of a frameup | and wanting her pet back, Miss | Latimer paid a reward. Today there is a strong padlock on her yard fence gate.

STOCKS IN FILM VALUABLE ONCE

— Kid-

turning

Times Special HOLLYWOOD, March dreds of dead stock certificates used as props in “Don’t Tell the Wife” once were worth more than $200,000 to Lynn Overman. Playing a leading role in the picture with Una Merkel and Guy | Kibbee, Mr. Overman learned that hundreds of the lithographed papers were necessary in the picture. He offered a suitcase full of the sad reminders of his more affluent days | and the studio property department | promptly actepted them. When the crash came in 1929, Mr. Overman lost $285,000, the fruits of 17 years of work.

BUYS NEWS FILM FOR FLOOD MOVIE

1.—Hun- |

By United Press HOLLYWOOD, March 1.—Capitaljzing on the flood disaster, Harry Cohn of Columbia is well along with “Flood,” a picture dramatizing the Midwestern catastrophe. He has bought up great footage of available newsreel material for his picture.

KNOWS HARD WORK

George O'Brien, virile star of “park Avenue Logger,” a George Hirliman production, studied mechanics, medicine and chemistry in college, was assigned to a submarine | chaser during the war and later be- | come Pacific Fleet light heavyweight | boxing champion. .

Shirley Temple, “Stowaway” Tim McCoy, “Ghost Patrol” —Tomorrow— Wm. Powell, “Libeled Lady”

EYL Li] 15¢ t

| of admirers,

| Schumann found Mr. | an admirable contrast to

| often rhetorical delivery.

| power and virtuosity,

| Ravel's

VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES IN PICTURES WHICH WILL APPEAR SOON AT CIRCLE

lturbi Presents Program

and Brilliance

Of Variety

By JAMES THRASHER : | standing interpreter of his native

Welcomed by an enthusiastic host

yesterday afternoon to reh his distinguished and brilliant pianism. The genial and gracious Spaniard confirmed the impression of his last appearance here that his increasing

English’s

| occupation with the baton has lent |

him a new and deeper approach to the piano. No longer is he pre-em-inently the virtuoso. He chose a program of variety and musical worth rather than one of astonishing bravura proportions—a program rather remarkable for the absence of the usually indispensable Bach, Beethoven or Chopin. The last, however, was included among the encores with the promptu and the Waltz in A Flat. Handel's Air and Variations in E Major (“The Harmonious smith") opened the recital, followed

by the familiar little D Major Sona- |

ta of Haydn. This Mr. Iturbi treated with respect and a manifest appreciation of good humor and ciarity of expression in its first and last movements. The largo movement was delivered with masterful regard for its classic eloquence. Plays Schumann Well “Symphonic Etudes” of Iturbi at and intimate theme was | its tooThe rath-

The

The brooding the

best. announcement of

er discursive variations a colorful, well-knit Though there was the necessary content was | never sacrificed for brilliance. Mr. Iturbi's devotion to Brahms

lis evident in his frequent program- |

ming of the German master's music.

elude him. The tempo and charac-

ter of both the C Major Intermezzo |

and the G Minor Rhapsody seemed amiss yesterday, together with a misjudment of the Rhapsody’s dramatic values. The E Flat Minor | Intermezzo, second in the group, |

sounded rather austere and percus- | It's all a matter of how one |

sive, likes one’s Brahms, and there are many true who, with Mr. Iturbi, hero with more Olympian than human qualities. The

probably “Brahmins”

“Jeux d'Eau,”’ the and “El Pelele” by Granados, done in a superlative manner. Few pianists can make of the Ravel music such a delightful,

were

but good natured fun-poking. Of course the artist

NOW ° 2 HITS oe “25¢ to 6 /4

PLUS “SINNER TAKE

Jose Iturbi returned to |

Fantasie-Im- |

Black- |

his |

Yet the spirit seems always to |

prefer their |

concluding modern pieces, | “Trois | mouvements perpetuels” of Poulenc, |

shimmer- | (Ing cascade of tone, nor deliver the | — Poulenc sketches with all their sly |

is an out-|

music, and gave a dashing account of the final number and two encores, a Spanish Dance by Granados and de Falla’s “Ritual Fire | Dance.” | The next offering in the Martens | series, which presented Mr. Iturbi, will he a recital by Lily Pons on March 3 14.

Curfew Stops Young Pianist

By United Press LONDON, March 1.—Ruth Slenczynski, 12-year-old California pianist, read enthusiastic reviews in today’s papers of her recital at the | Queen's Hall.

London's curfew compelled her to leave the platform when, her recital ended, she was responding to the demands of her audience for encores. An official reminded her that she had but little time left because of | the London County Council regulation that children under 14 may not | perform in public after 10 p. m.

CARRIER PIGEON MOVIE HEROINE

Times Special

emerged in| interpretation. |

| HOLLYWOOD, March lore is going modern. | The dove, which used to be a symbol of peace and marital happiness has been replaced by a carrier pigeon in “They Wanted to Marry,” new romantic comedy. The hero of the film, Gordon Jones, is a cameraman on a metropolitan newspaper, and he used “Emily,” the pigeon, to fly his | negatives back to the paper from important assignments. “Emily,” | carries messages as well as negatives, and her activities play an im-

| picture.

FIGHTER TURNS SEER

What happens when a “dub” prize fighter sets himself up as a professional] astrologer and begins hand- | predictions to a horde of | is shown in detail |

ing out trusting clients, in “When's Your Birthday?”’, David | L. Loew's comedy starring Joe E. Brown.

TENGLISH

: Seats Now

Mon. » Tues., Wed., March 8, 9, 10 Matinee Wednesday TALLULAH

BANKHEAD

’ ¢ ’ ! + In "REFLECTED GLORY" i" A New Comedy by GEO. KELLY : The Greatest Hit of Her Cared ’ t

with Clay Clement, Ann Andrews, Phillip Reed, and Original Broadway Cast

§ Eves. $2.35, $2.20, $1.65, $1.10, 85c ~ Wed. Mat. $2.20, $1.65, $1.10, Bde

ENGLISH

THE THEATER GUILD, Inc., Presents

Helen Jerome's Dramatization of Charlotte Bronte's Novel

“JANE EYRE’

WITH

KATHARINE HEPBURN

(IN PERSON) t

4 Tun seesuwawaal

Tonight, Tnes.,, Wed. Nights—Mat. "Wed. Nights, 8:30. Mat, 2:30 Sharp

1.—Bird- |

{ played bv |

portant part in the romance of the |

Here's a preview glimpse of attractions booked for the Circle in the |

next few weeks.

1. Fred MacMurray and Carole I: to illustrate the title of their new picture,

2. Preston Foster looks a little amiable advances, scene is from "Sea Devils,”

next film, “Wa

while an apprehensive Ida Lupino looks on. the Circle's next attraction. 3. A few fishing yarns are swapped by Bob Burns and Bing Crosby | © during work on their

ombard are all up in the air trying | “Swing High, Swing Low.” Victor McLaglen's The |

distrustfully at

ikiki Wedding.”

4, The two grim-looking heroes of “Souls at Sea” are Gary Cooper and George Raft.

5. The screen version of Jules Verne's celebra

Studio Assists |

| soil of his hilltop estate from the |

WHAT, WHEN, WHERE

APOLLO

with Dick Powell, Alice Faye, the 1:31, 3:31,

On the Avenue,” Madeleine Carroll, Ritz Brothers. at 11:31, 5:31, 7:31 and 9:31.

CIRCLE

Gods,” with Miriam de Lawrence, at

“Men Are Not Hopkins and Gertru 11:24, 3 3 and 8:54. Also ohn Red Woman,” with Edw ‘ard Arnold and Francine Larrimore, at 12:43, 3:58, 7:08 and 10:18.

ENGLISH'S

Katharine Hepburn in “Jane Eyre,” with Dennis Hoey, Curtain at 8:30.

KEITH'S

presented by Curtain at 8:1

LOEW'S

“When You're in Love.” with Grace Moore and Cary Grant, at 12:25 35, 6:50 and 10. Also ‘Sinner Take AL with Bruce Cabot and Margaret Lindsay, at 11:05, 2:20, 5:30 and 8:45. ||

LYRIC

“Love Is News” (on screen), Loretta Young, Tyrone Power Don Ameche. at 11:30, 2:15. 9:55 and 10:30. “Broadway Midnight Follies’ (on stage) at 1:05, 3:50, 6:45 and 9:30,

“Noah,”

the Federal Players. 5.

with and 5:10,

OHIO

with Joe EF. Brown and Also ‘Flying Hostess,” Gargan.

AMBASSADOR "Gold Diggers of 1937.” with Dick

Powell. Also Wanted: Jane Turner.” with Lee Tracy.

ALAMO

with Shirley Temple. Patrol,” with Tim c-

“Pola Joe,” Carol Hughes with William

VICTOR M'LAGLEN TO GO TO ENGLAND

| Times Special { HOLLYWOOD, March 1—Victor | | McLaglen, who, although a British subject, is as familiar with America

| as his own land, will leave Hollywood after working in pictures | steadily for a year to attend the | coronation of King George VI in May. The rough and ready Englishman | | says he needs a vacation. His pres- | ent newest picture is “Sea Devils,” which he made for R-K-O Radio, the studio which brought him | fame in “The Informer” last year. |

{ Times Special

ted “Michael Stragoff’

College Players

1.—The vice

HOLLYWOOD, March plan initiated by S. J. Briskin,

president in charge of production at

R-K-0O Radio, whereby young talent of the studio is loaned out to Little Theater groups bore further fruit recently when Jane Walsh, young contract plaver, appeared in the leading feminine role of “Mr. Grant” with the Loyola University of Los | Angeles Del Rey players. The Arthur Goodrich play required a cast of 32, and all but Miss Walsh were students. Currently she is working at the studio in “Wings of Mercy,” which has a cast that includes John Beal, Joan Fontaine, Philip Huston, | George Irving, Frank M. Thomas |

and Diana Gibson. directing.

I FAYE - The RITZ Brothers wa GEORGE BARBICR

— TOMORROW 1 |

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Famous All-Girl Dance Ladies 15¢ All Evening Gentlemen 25¢ Before 9

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Be Prepared With “Royal Oak”

Half Soles 49:

Tuesday Only

dren. Women's soles sewed on.

Your W alking Days Are On the Way

The best in genuine leather half soles.

While You-Wait Service For men, women and chil-

Free Parking

| home have not yet { with grass and

Lew Landers is |”

snivoLi

will introduce the European stage and film star, Anton Walbrook, shown

| here with Elizabeth Allan.

6. It appears that Joe E. Brown has stepped right off a cough-drop

box for this sequence of

Roving Property

Plagues Actors

Limes Special

HOLLYWOOD, March 1.—For the |

in six weeks, Preston retrieving the top

| third time | Foster is busy

family next door.

Because the grounds at the new

been planted landscaped, each | heavy rain has washed tons of |earth off the lot onto the property just below.

Each time, a corps of men have [been employed to retrieve the top

soil and carry it back to the Foster

(land.

Mr. can raise a lawn,

Foster says that as soon as he

hopes.

KEITH'S Ta FEDIRAL PLAYERS SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY

WEEK ATTRACTION

BY ANDRE OBEY. NIGHTS 15¢, 25¢, 40c SAT. MATINEE 10c¢, 20c, 30e NEXT “CORRESPONDENT WEEK ! UNKNOWN”

Lost 4 Days!

EDWARD ARNOLD and FRANCINE LARRIMORE

OL Meade’s

Miriam Hopkins “Men Are Not Gods,”

25¢ Until 6

ith Pardonable Pride

Your Best All 'Round Neighborhood THEATER!

outstanding film after downtown. most beautiful

+ Showing tare, shortly % One of the biggest, city theaters. % Easily accessible from all parts of town, 3155 E. 10th St. corner Dearborn. Two free parking lots, In addition to plentiful street parking. Over 1200 seats, comfortably cushioned. Regulated air. Summer deep-well cooling. New RCA High Fidelity Sound. New, clearest, most modern screen projection. Courteous usher service, in attendance Sunday. Sat. Night is “Owl Night’ (return showing of a “favorite” added to regular show), Earliest neighborhood opening Monday thru Saturday 5:45 p. m. Sunday, i p. m. continuous to closing. Sat. matinee, 1 p.m tod p m % A family theater -but ORDERLY (Kiddies have THEIR big time Sat. matinee, serial, candy, etc.)

NOW SHOWING GARY COOPER JEAN dRTNUR & fit 8 B.De Milles

PLANSMAN

A Porameunt Picture

ventilation, ozonated

matron

* OO ok ARE * OH #

evening

Also “Mysterious Crossing” with

James Dunn

3155 East 10th St.

“When shopping the neighbor od ea A ade Bo T

“When's Your Birthday.”

- 4

Just to prove that dancing is bee

coming increasingly popular Indianapolis residents of all the Children’s Civie

with . ages,

Theater will

present Edwin Strawbridge and his

company in “Pinocchio,” especially created for children,

a ballet. for

one performance at 2:30 p. m, March 20 in the Murat.

Mrs.

George Fotheringham, gens-

eral chairman of the children’s ore ganization, and Miss Eunice Dissette, ~ secretary of the Civic's board of die, rectors, have charge of the arrange-

ments.

“Pinocchio” is a dance dramas, tization of Collodi's familiar and be

loved children’s story.

The story is

of a puppet who comes to life and gets himself into all manner of trou= ble through his pranks. The tale will be presented as a play enacted in dance form with ac=

companying dialog. by Mabel Wood Hill; playwright and director,

The music is’ Dorothy Coit, wrote the

scenario, and the colorful and amus= ing costumes are by the famous ar=

tist, Willy Pogany.

Associated With Ruth Page

Mr,

Strawbridge, star and director

of the ballet, at one time was asso= ciated with Ruth Page, formerly of...

Indianapolis.

They

appeared to=

gether at a command performance in the Imperial Theater, Tokyo, dure ing the Emperor Hirohito’s corona=

tion ceremonies.

Strawbridge

has appeared throughout America,

Europe and the Orient. Featured with him will

be Lisa.

Parnova, who returned to the United States recently after an engagement as prima ballerina at the Cologne Opera and performances elsewhere

in Europe.

LL FY ARRAN

Joe E. Brown, Carol Hughes, “" 5?

Claudette Colbert,

Star Cast

Ben Lyon

“I Cover the Water Front”

ALL INDIANAPOLIS RUSHING TO

THE LYRIC TO SEE INSANE ‘BROADWAY MIDNITE FOLLIES’

N. T. G. SHOW A SENSATION

THOUSANDS TURNED AWAY OVER RECORD WEEK-END!

“NUDIST CAMP” WITH

FAMOUS MODELS THE SHOW'S GREATEST THRILL!

the land will be- | come his permanent property—he |

Cavalcade of Beautiful Girls

Overflows Into Audience!

Greatest Combination of Dynamite Laughs and Glamorous Girls Ever Seen in a Theater! I ES SRT BE

ON SCREEN:

“LOVE IS NEWS’’

Tonight's Presentations at Your

Neighborhood Theaters

SIDE

2702 W. 10th St. Double Feature Stim Summerville RE XIE"

w EST §

ST A 1 E “CAN THIS CRAC W. Wash. & Belmont Double Feature

| BELMONT "3 jes

“COLLEGE HOL IDAY"

“G ARDEN OF ALLAH” 2540 W, Mich. 5. D A S Y Dick Powell “GOLD DIGGERS OF 193%" Howard & Blaine HOWARD Ppubte Frais “PENNIES FROM HE VEN’ SOUTH SIDE De a E SMART GIR ; “CHARLIE CHAN AT THE OPERA” Double Feature Sark, Gable “CAIN AND MAB | Dionne Quintuplets ros. at Churchman Double Feature “VALIANT IS THE WORD FOR CARRIE” “TWO-FISTED GENTLEMAN Double Feature Barbara Stanwyck “BANJO ON MY KNEE” “WITHOUT ORDERS” Double Feature Martha Raye “HIDEAWAY GIRL" “PENNIES FROM HEAVEN" Double Feature Frank McHugh “THREE MEN ON A HORSE" Shirley Temple “"DIMPLES’ - 0 LI 3155 F. 10th R y Gary Cooper “THE PLAINSMAN" 2442 E. Wash. St. Barbara Stanwyck N MY KNEE” TI IV 4020 E. New York Double Feature “COLLEGE HOLIDAY" “CAN THIS BE DIXIE” Double Feature William Powell “AFTER THE THIN MAN" “OUR RELATIONS” EMERSON Double Feature Lily Pons “THAT SRL FROM PARIS”

Double Feature James Cagney “GREAT GUY” Double Feature “TARZAN ESCAPES Double Reatnre anba Durbin At Fountain Square SANDERS " EU NION” | AVALON John Howard ~~ 1105 8. Meridian St. ORIENTAL 7 an 2203 Shelby St. GARFIELD | 7 nc 8. East at Lincoln LINCOLN EAST SIDE Doors Open 5:45 “MY STERIOU 8S C ROSSING" Double Feature ‘BANJO O “WEDDING PRESENT” TUXEDO Jack Benny 1D 5307 E. Wash. St. IRVING 4620 E. 10th St. “BANJO ON MY KNEE"

GOLDEN 6116 E. Washingion

Double Feature “TEXAS v Fred MacMurray uy SiitbRexih

HAMILTON

SWORN

PARKER

“DODSWO

2116 E. Double Feature William “AFTER THE THIN MAN’ ENEMY” ®936 E. Double Feature Walter Huston

10th St,

Powell

Toth Bb

RTH “ALL -AMERIC AN CHUMP”

STRAND

“THAT GIRL FROM PARIS”

James Cagney

“GREAT GUY”

First East Side Showings

Paramount ‘MUMMY'S

411 E. Wash. ne Double Feature Wheeler-Woolsey BOY

“PIGSKIN PARADE"

BIJOU

“STAR “THEY

RITZ

111 E. Double Features Claire Trevor FOR A NIGHT" MET IN A TAXI”

NORTH SIDE

Illinois Double Feature

“Wash, St,

cman and #ith

Clive B Brook

“LOVE IN EXILE Shirley Temple “STOWAWAY”

Hollywood

“BORN

1500 Roosevelt Ave. Double Feature Eleanor Powell

TO DANCE" “WITHOUT ORDERS”

ZARING

Central at Fall Creek Double Feature Deanna Durbin

“THREE SMART GIRLS “ONE WAY PASSAGE”

UPTOWN

— 42d and College Double Feature Stuart Erwin

ALL-AMERICAN CHUMP

“CHARI IE CHAN

GARRICK

AT THE

OPERA" LL

S0th and Winols Double Feature

Irene Dunne

“THEODORA GOES WIL Dn” “THE CAPTAIN'S KID"

ST. CLAR

8t. Cl.

& Ft. Wayne

Double Feature Eleanor Powell

ORN DAN “GENTLEMAN FROM LOUISIANA"

UDELL

Udell at Clifton Special Gary

Featnty Coo

“THE GENERAL DIED AT DA ti Popeve Cartoon

TALBOTT

"BORN

Talhott Double F Ritanor

& 22 atur owel

T0 D "HIDEAWAY GIRL,

REX

2Uth & Double Feature Joan Blondell “THREE MEN ON A HO

Northw't' ~ i

RSE”

“TARZAN ESCAPES”

Stratford

“HO

19th & Colles Double Feature RI, Alexander

T MONEY’ “END OF THE. TRAIL”

MECCA

Noble & Mass, Double Feature

—

fon Boles

“CRAIG'S WIF “SNOWED UNDER”

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2361

Station st.

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